Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Linda Brown Buckner, whose father was the plaintiff in the original case, was among the Topeka parents who revived the lawsuit in 1979. Says her sister, Cheryl Brown Henderson, the family spokeswoman: "The quality of education was slipping, and it appeared that the only way to get attention was legal redress...
...decades of legal squabbling and unruly protests have turned the Seabrook, N.H., nuclear-power plant into a symbol of everything that is wrong with atomic energy in the U.S. But the start-up of low-power testing at Seabrook last week signaled that a fresh wave of pro-nuclear sentiment is stirring in Washington. The testing permit was the second granted in two months: the first went to Long Island's Shoreham nuclear plant, even though the reactor's owner had already decided to junk...
...anything, these few morality trials do not go nearly far enough. The real scandal in Congress is not what's illegal; it is what's legal: the blatant, shameless greasing of congressional palms that violates good sense, good taste and good government. Capitol Hill is polluted by money -- campaign money, speech-giving money, outside money from investments, and money substitutes like all-expenses-paid vacations and gifts. Fred Wertheimer, president of the public-interest lobby Common Cause, is looked upon these days as an ethics ayatullah, but he is not overstating by much when he says, "Our nation faces...
Just who is Andrew Wylie and why is he stirring up so much bile in the publishing industry? "He's probably the most dishonest agent in the business," claims Scott Meredith, who is Norman Mailer's agent. "Wylie is to the literary business what Roy Cohn was to the legal business," snipes superagent Morton Janklow. "A sociopath," says Daphne Merkin, associate publisher at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
NATION: Wright hits "cannibalism" over ethics, but the real scandal in Congress is the legal grab for cash...